The Home of Photos in Dunnunda! Mk I

[VH-XXX]

Dr. I posted a photo of WTF at Geelong Vic a couple of months ago. It must get around. Where is that one?

For those that haven't seen one yet, the new E-Jet dropped into Albury while I was there today at the airshow.

[Lasiorhinus]

Another Cirrus in Canberra.... one could be forgiven for thinking they're breeding over there

[go_soaring]

"Oh sh*t the wing has fallen off!
I'm outta here! Seeya mate!
Enjoy the ride down!"

FTDK, yeah something like that! Often the parachute is only warn for comfort/padding in the cockpit. When you learn to glide in Aus, you generally go up without parachutes - madness hey! I own my own parachute these days, so on all gliding flights it comes with me

Here's a picture of my old mans glider, about to launch @ Kingaroy. It's a Schempp-Hirth Ventus 2cxM. The engine is a 52hp Solo engine, and at MTOW of 565kg it'll easily climb out at over 500fpm (early day self-launchers always struggled to get this). Once at around 2000AGL, the prop is lined up vertically and retracted back into the fuselarge. This transforms the glider into a more traditional 'pure sailplane'..

http://bp3.blogger.com/_s1aKFuHusZQ/...0206W30075.JPG

Dad's flown 988km in this bird, and fastest speed around a task of 144km/hr!

W3

[ABX]

ABX Airshow

What a great plane! Awesome to see it perform.

[185skywagon]

She looks fairly tidy these days.
Still don't like the cargo pod.
cheers,
185.

[Knulp]

Soaring
When the hat badges equal the AUW of the glider you are cleared to go.

[ABX]

So true

LOL

Knulp, that is true everywhere I have been gliding! Badge collecting seems to be a sub culture of all gliding enthusiasts.

[go_soaring]

so true..

Aint that the truth re: badges.. However, we've got a more appropriate name for those guys in the gliding world..

OFITTHS - Old Farts in Terry Towling Hats!!

You become a 'senior' in gliding on your 26th birthday, so there's not much time left for me


W3

[Ratshit]

Do any of you sheep-shaggin C185 drivers know the whereabouts of the ex VH-CJT?

Arrived in NZ via a stint on the ice in Antarctica?

Rat

[Weheka]

But I thought Aussie was the place where men are men and the sheep are nervous??
You might be talking about ZK-FNX, currently on skydiving ops in the North Island somewhere, I believe that was down the ice before arriving in NZ. I think the original log books are still down there, in the ship which went down.......down there.

"http://www.jetphotos.net/photolink.php?id=5897276"

[185skywagon]

Re CJT

My records reveal the following

RGO SHORTSERIAL MVT date OWNER ADDRESS Field10 Field11
CJT 1456 ATR 25/02/1970 G. Thomas 30 Second Ave RossmoyneWA Ex N2295T
CJT 1456 CO 2/04/1974 G.R. Thomas 21 Sunset Cres KalamundaWA
CJT 1456 CO 3/10/1977 Piper West Pty Ltd Jandakot Airport JandakotWA
CJT 1456 CO 23/02/1978 B.E. Deane Ambo Station LongreachQLD
CJT 1456 CO 9/09/1981 Rex Aviation (Qld) Pty Ltd PO Box 108 RockleaQLD
CJT 1456 CO 19/02/1982 D.S. Briffa 44 Herbert St Saddlers CrossinQLD
CJT 1456 COA 7/03/1985 D.S. Briffa 2 Wyman St BrassallQLD
CJT 1456 CO 2/12/1985 T.J. Molloy 147B Queen St WoollahraNSW
CJT 1456 CO 26/12/1985 P.A. Malcolm 147B Queen St WoollahraNSW
CJT 1456 SOR 8/08/1986 Exported to New Zealand as ZK-FNX

cheers,
185.

[notmyC150v2]

Not mine but I got these emailed to me today

Apologies if you have seen them before.







And finally, just in case you thought you had a close call today...

[Jabawocky]

Is that Air Canada one for real or a good mock up in photoshop? Surely not real

J

[Dave Incognito]

If memory serves me correctly, it’s blended with a photo from a test where a bomb was detonated in a retired fuselage. A good effort though!

[notmyC150v2]

Dunno Jaba. Like I said they were just emailed to me.

I hope it is a photoshop jobby though. If it was real it couldn't have ended well.

[notmyC150v2]

Dave,

That would explain why there are all those lines where the explosion is but not on the rest of the fuselage. Very well done though.

[BPH63]

(old) fake. its a composite photo including a Air France fuselage being detonated in tests

[Hempy]

The last one is a scene from some movie whose name escapes me at the moment.

[satmstr]

hempy , i think the movie is Final Destination .... correct me if i am wrong

[PyroTek]

i remember seeing a GIF image of that last image (with the logs) and someone had chucked the face of King Leonidus from Sparta on the end of the log...